White Papers

Cambashi’s work for its clients often results in publicly-available documents. As a result, many of our white papers, executive briefs, and reports are available at no cost. Accessing white papers requires registration. The web site will remember you during this session, so if you would like to download more than one document, please consider doing so during your current visit to our site. We will never divulge your contact information beyond Cambashi.

Metrics that Matter Revisited February 2010
Julie Fraser
Cambashi recently conducted research on behalf of Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) about the role that plant operations play in the effort to improve business performance.  The good news: some production companies actually improved their financial performance in the past few years.  This brief report gives you a view into what they are doing differently, and a starting point for your efforts to join them.  It also highlights a few of the data points gathered in the full report, Correlating Plant Performance to Business Performance.  The full report is available to Premium MESA Members (www.mesa.org) and directly from our team at our discretion.  

Managing Extreme Volatility, Variability and Variety: Process Manufacturers' Special Challenges in the New Economy October 2009
Julie Fraser
Process manufacturing is complex, but today's markets make it far more challenging.  This paper puts forward two possible paths to success, which both need strong supply chain management capabilities that are specially designed to support process industry needs.  

Transforming Cost Management: Five Elements of a Winning Approach that Make Innovation Affordable and Sustainable in High Tech & Electronics September 2009
Julie Fraser
Cost management has always been an important management tool, but the approach most companies take today is proving inadequate. In short, electronics companies must transform cost management to be comprehensive, proactive, pervasive, and continuous.   

AutoCAD 2010 Productivity Study August 2009
Christine Easterfield

Cambashi recently conducted a comparison test of Autodesk's AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD 2010 software and found significant productivity gains of up to 63% when engineers and designers use AutoCAD 2010 software for common design and documentation tasks.  

Accelerate Business Performance Gains with Manufacturing Execution Systems April 2008
Julie Fraser
This paper uses original research data in manufacturing companies to illustrate how MES generates business success in areas such a quality, customer service, asset utilization, compliance, lean, innovation and others.   

Mobile Technology for Managing Meter Replacement Issues October 2008
Christine Easterfield
A look at the stages of meter replacement programs that compares the implementation options open to utility companies, covering managing meter inventories, ensuring field operations have the right meters in the right places, updating back office systems and maximizing productivity of each meter installation.   

Commonization and Re-use - a Strategy to Reduce Cost and Improve Responsiveness October 2007
Peter Thorne
The business value of commonization and re-use is growing, and integrated PLM technologies facilitate not only re-use of parts and manufacturing processes but also sharing and re-use of the rules, guidelines and procedures that define engineering know-how. This white paper is useful to management teams in design and manufacturing companies who need to consider these business and engineering issues and the role of integrated PLM technology.  

Plant–to-Enterprise Integration: Foundation for MES/MOM Payback June 2009
Julie Fraser
This paper focuses on the value of MES/MOM and the critical value of integration between these plantwide systems and ERP. The paper posits integration as a foundation for MES/MOM success and indicates integration requirements to achieve expected payback.   

Team, Traction and Momentum: Manufacturing Improvement Projects that Pay Off March 2007
Julie Fraser
Successful manufacturing improvement projects can spell the difference between a profitable plant and one that’s history. This paper explains the core elements for successful plant floor process and software improvement projects, including how to show financial impact.